Thread: Chaining & Degrading Americans: Torture II

Originally Posted by shintao

When we are not torturing our citizens, we are degrading them. Replugs are proud to be part of the Torture mentality movement.



La Frontera Times reporter Alfredo Gutierrez has the latest (2/6/09) from new Fox reality show star Joe Arpaio. The Arizona sheriff, under FBI investigation for violating civil rights in his crusade against immigration, recently marched all of the Maricopa County immigrant detainees--chained together in full prisoner uniforms--down the street "from the Durango Jail to the [new segregated] facility":

The parade was on a public road, Gibson Street in Phoenix, but the road was closed to all but the press. The press was notified of the public spectacle the day before and arrangements were made for all media to be present and photograph and film the prisoners. All the major television stations were present as were newspapers and radio and television helicopters hovered overhead. The forced march though short had one intended effect: it was a publicity orgy for the sheriff.


Remarking on "a particular sadness in witnessing this spectacle of human degradation," Gutierrez writes that "the symbolism was unmistakable, the men of color, the public humiliation, the forced march, the segregated camp"--but for the ever-sensationalistic U.S press, the only symbol that really matters is a dollar sign.

Protests of the corporate media embrace of bigotry and of Sheriff Arpaio directly are afoot across the U.S. and online.

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

I bet you clap your hands and leap for joy every time an American soldier is killed in Iraq.

Originally Posted by Zionsfriend

I bet you clap your hands and leap for joy every time an American soldier is killed in Iraq.

/slap!

Down, boy!

Hey, I told you to go back to sleep, didn't I?

Originally Posted by Zionsfriend

I bet you clap your hands and leap for joy every time an American soldier is killed in Iraq.

How much money are you willing to wager? How about a $100.00 ? You set the amount you are confortable with. The next soldier to die in Iraq, if I clap my hands and leap for joy, I will pay the amount you chose. If I don't, you pay me. In fact if I don't, I will just call you a cocksucker, how about that? My hundred against calling a cocksucker.

Originally Posted by shintao

When we are not torturing our citizens, we are degrading them. Replugs are proud to be part of the Torture mentality movement....

You will need an explanation for why all the lawyers are Democrats...